The Urban Night Sessions

Our awesome urban beer odyssey is now available at night...

We loved our Urban Beery Odyssey so much, we decided to create a night time version. We will introduce you to chocolate, vanilla, coffee, toffee and bacon flavoured beer, refreshing summer ales, crisp sessionable lagers, fruit infused barrel aged ales and experimental single batch brews at some of Melbourne's best small breweries and craft beer venues.

Small Group Touring: Our public tour passengers enjoy small group (max 13 people), flexible touring in our customized, air-conditioned mini-buses. Note: we can accommodate up to 50 people on our private tours. To be fair to other passengers, we ask groups of 7+ to book a private tour as to not unfairly unbalance the group.

Beer Lovers Heaven: There is a great mix of beers available, from your domestic pale lagers through to some weird and wacky creations that push the boundaries of brewing. If you have a friend or partner who "doesn't like beer" bring them along and tell them to approach the day with an open mind (an open mind we are about to blow - kapow!)

The Best Guides: Our guides are fun loving, alcohol guru’s who will take you on a journey through the entertaining history of drinking.

Detailed Itinerary

Aussie Brewery Tours loves flexible touring, free from time constraints and overbearing guides. Forget the winery tour model – come in, have the smallest taste possible, then we will all stare at you awkwardly until you sign up to our wine club, buy a case and get out. Our tours are about generous tastings and soaking up the atmosphere of each different venue with a glass of your favourite. We know when it is time to move on when there are more empty glasses than full glasses.

This relaxed touring, coupled with a wide range of partners, ensures that we have numerous different venues (brew pubs & restaurants, tastings rooms, beer gardens, etc) which have different products and atmospheres which allows us to pick the best of the best for that particular tour. We may mix up our itinerary depending on the season, day of the week, what specialty products are available, traffic and big events, the weather and venue constraints (like when a brewery recently had a spill and had to shut for the day – thankfully they spilled cleaning products and not beer, phew!).

So rather than a detailed, minute by minute itinerary, we will tell you about some of the stops we may visit on each tour:

The Crafty (James) Squire: Enjoy a very generous tasting paddle from their beer & cider line-up (includes all seasonal/speciality beers) at this inner-city brewpub.

Temple Brewery: Temple Brewery have a wonderful range of core beers, plus dabble in one-off, single batch and collaboration beers with other brewers and even suggestions from their fans. We will include a special Aussie Brewery Tours uber tasting paddle (double their regulation paddle) of their current range.

Moon Dog Brewery: This is where the tour starts to get wild as we sample the amazing, weird and wacky creations that Moondog Brewery is famous for (bloody Mary beers, champagne beers, the ice-cream series, etc). The tasting here is beyond large!

Two Birds Brewery: Started by Danielle and Jayne (the two birds) this brewery has a fantastic range of sessionable beers and interesting single batch creations to try.

Foresters Hall: This beer hall and live music venue in Melbourne's inner north is home to one of the most impressive tap lists found in Australia.

Stomping Ground Brewery: This amazing brewery venue is by the same lads that brought you the Local Taphouse bars in St Kilda and Darlinghurst Sydney, as well the Great Australasian Beer Spectapular aka the biggest beer festival in the Southern Hemisphere. A state of the art brewhouse is coupled with an amazing venue, kitchen serving up delicious food and an ever-expanding tap list.

Other: We are always expanding our brewery venue's as we find new friends to go and visit!

Private Tours and Gift Cards

Our public tours are for groups of 13 people or less for the simple reasons that it makes for a better tour when you meet some new people from around Mebourne, Victoria, Australia and the whole big wide world then head off on a little adventure together!

If you wish to have a private tour for your next bucks or hens, corporate event, or just because you and your mates are awesome and like having fun, you can check these out in our private tours page.

Fees Tees and Cees, Legal Stuff and Codes of Conduct

Aussie Brewery Tours will always act in a professional manner and be fair, open and transparant with all of our business dealings. We have the correct insurances and licences to operate. On tour, we want you to drink as much as you want, sing, laugh, dance and be merry, but please please please don't be a d!ckhead.

If you want more information on fees, taxes, bank charges, legal conditions, cancellation policies, how much our lawyer charges us, insurances, licences, charity donations and how not not not to be a d!ckhead click below...

Click here for legal mumbo-jumbo and more info on how to act in public...

As per industry standard a small fee (1.2%) is applied to cover our booking system, merchant fees and bank charges - which still doesn't cover them! Feel free to prank call your local bank just to make you feel better about it all!

All products are subject to our terms and conditions and we recommend you read these, or contact us, before making a purchase, if you are unsure about anything.

Our tours require minimum numbers to run (6pax - across at least 2 independent bookings, 8pax for brew your own beer). If Aussie Brewery Tours believes we will not get the minimum numbers for a tour, we will be in contact with you, from the moment you book,right through to a number of days out from the tour to ensure you know what is happening. If we do not run, we can refund your tour in full or if you're keen, switch you to anther product, date or time.

An option to donate to Charity Tap will be presented to you on checkout. This is a voluntary donation with 100% of anything you choose to donate, going directly to Charity Tap - with Aussie Brewery Tours matching your donation cent for cent up to $50. To find out more about Charity Tap, you can read the description during checkout, or have a look at our blog post or their website.

We enjoy a few shenanigans as much the next person, after all, we take people cruising around drinking for a living. We have never had any issues on tour, however, on behalf of our brewery and venue partners we ask that you behave in an appropriate and respectful manner throughout your event. Antisocial behaviour will not be tolerated!

We have a strict no-drinking policy on the bus, this is in accordance with state alcohol laws. We will however drive you from venue to venue and, no surprises here, non of the places we have visited has every run out of things to drink! We have also never heard the words "I didn't get to drink enough today" after one of our tours.

All our venues adhere to Responsible Serving of Alcohol (RSA) laws. If you are asked to leave a venue for inappropriate behaviour, the tour is over.

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